Roman Safiullin gets by Fabio Fognini 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Chengdu on Thursday. Safiullin will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Juncheng Shang in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 8 minutes. His most significant achievement in this competition was reaching the final in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Russian added to his prize money $ 8,000 after winning this match. He has already won $ 20,565 after this win. If he wins the next match, Safiullin will add $ 14,850 to his earnings to get in total $ 35,415 in total.
Highlights Roman Safiullin vs. Fabio Fognini Chengdu Open – Chengdu
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 96 points vs. Fabio’s 82.
Safiullin
Safiullin served exceptionally well to win 80% of the points (36/45) behind his first serve, and he won 51% points (22/43) on his second serve. Roman blasted 13 aces and he committed 6 double faults. The Russian won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 36% (4/11) of the procured opportunities.
Fognini
On the other side, Fognini didn’t lose the focus when converting 60% of the break points that he conquered points (3/5). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this encounter, the head to head between Safiullin and Fognini is 1-0
for Roman.Draw and next match H2H: Roman Safiullin vs. Juncheng Shang – stats
Safiullin will come up against Shang in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Roman Safiullin and Juncheng Shang clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0
for Shang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.Tennis Scores in Chengdu
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Borna CoricCoric (3-6 7-69 6-4)
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 7-5)
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Pavel KotovKotov (6-4 7-5)
- Yi ZhouZhou – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (2-6 6-1 3-1 ret.)
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 7-67)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-4 6-4)
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Terence AtmaneAtmane (6-79 6-1 6-3)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 4-6 6-4)
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 7-64)
- Taro DanielDaniel – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 7-5)
- Lukas KleinKlein – Adam WaltonWalton (7-63 6-4)
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Fajing SunSun (6-75 7-5 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H details and stats